(A guest post by IBM's Tony Boobier, Business Analytics Insurance Leader, EMEA)
It’s been a damp and stormy winter in Europe. UK Insurance claims following recent storms and flooding over Christmas and New Year have hit £426m ($1.0BN), and are expected to grow. UK Insurance companies have received 174,000 claims for... [Continue Reading]

Register your interest in the Watson Analytics Beta !
(Guest post from Leah Hostetler, Senior Product Manager, Watson Analytics )
Inspired by Watson
You may have recently seen IBM’s announcement of The Watson Group and its $1B commitment to the next generation of cognitive computing. I’d like to invite you to join us... [Continue Reading]

We are very excited to have Seth Grimes join us next week as our featured expert on the Big Data & Analytics online chat next Wednesday, February 26th!
Seth is a leading industry analyst covering text analytics, sentiment analysis, and analysis on the confluence of structured and unstructured data sources, as our subject matter... [Continue Reading]

(Guest post from IBM's VP - WW Marketing, Business Analytics, Eric Sall)
On a flight home from IBM’s PartnerWorld Leadership Conference recently, I noticed a young boy across the aisle playing a video game and thought, again, how many millions of people are touched by cloud technologies and don’t even know it.
... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from T. Alah Keahey, PhD., V isualization Science and Systems Expert in the IBM Business Analytics Office of the CTO .
People whose work requires discovering and using insights from data frequently encounter the question of how much information can be viewed and understood using visualization techniques. The answer depends greatly... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Basir Syed, Market Manager, Social Media Analytics, IBM Business Analytics.
“Seeing is believing,” an idiom first recorded in this form in 1639, means "only physical or concrete evidence is convincing." This idiom has passed the test of time, and still holds good.
The reason I say this is because... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Tina Groves, Big Data Product Strategist for Business Intelligence.
This post is the last in a series about common double counting errors. It focuses on the more complex situations that can inadvertently result in double counting and requires additional technical skill.
If you missed the earlier posts, here... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Noah Iliinsky, IBM visualization luminary.
This is a continuation of a series of posts covering the Four Pillars of Visualization. If you haven't done so already, please read the introductory post and the post, "Purpose: the bedrock of an effective visualization."
... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Tina Groves, Big Data Product Strategist for Business Intelligence.
The concept of double counting was defined and our sample 6 rows were described in the earlier post, Introduction to Double Counting . In this post, the first two lessons in the series will discuss how to detect and address the most common... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Noah Iliinsky, IBM visualization luminary.
This is a continuation of a series of posts covering the Four Pillars of Visualization. Please read my previous article , which describes these pillars as: purpose, content, structure and formatting. This post focuses on the first of these.
What is your purpose?... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from Steven Savaglio, Senior Manager, Client Care, IBM Business Analytics
Who doesn't like it when there's one place to go for everything? It's why Amazon is so popular: I can get a book, a coat or a chain saw from Amazon. Or just about anything else. And what about Walmart? I can get a new bike, a loaf of bread and a... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Margrace Bateman, Market Segment Manager, Predictive Analytics Solutions Marketing.
Follow Margrace on Twitter at @bateman_mg
Creating an agenda is a specialized skill. You don't want it to be so rigid that you feel chained to an inflexible schedule, but you don't want it to be so full of holes that you miss out... [Continue Reading]

By Maria Winans, Vice President, IBM Software Solutions Group Marketing.
I’m excited when somebody asks me about our content line up for InterConnect 2013 . Here are a few highlights, from my perspective.
We will showcase the IBM Watson Engagement Advisor , powered by the same technology that enabled... [Continue Reading]

Guest Post by Mary Kern, WW Market Segment Manager, IBM Business Analytics
Have you ever felt like Business Analytics marketing is a lot of fluff? An endless stream of grandiose platitudes promising “business value” that rarely articulates the real impact the technology might have on your job or in your department? A lot of... [Continue Reading]

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